Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-15


the semi-civillZed Red mau. AS to the
other territories, there are no such re-
strictions and all kinds of liquors can be
procured by the drink or barrel.-T Mar
shall Herald.
The True Blues made no mistake at
Dallas. Read their platform in another
Icolumn. This is strictly non-partisan
fight on the merits of the case. The Pro-
hibitionists alone have Numbered. They
have lead and made the fight, establish
ing their lines on weak grounds. The
gush and the sentiment are with them;
theirs the theories lmpracticable of
capitalization while the arguments of
the ants are addressed to the the COM
mon, everyday sense of the people, to
their "practical thoughts" and to their
pockets. Do they offer a prohibition
which will prohibit ? Will it reduce the
! drinking of whisky Will it pay? No.
Ii Alvarado Bulletin.
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Prohibition is an offspring of anarchy
and Massachusetts Dlue-laWism. It is q
foreign importation that will never -four
ish in liberal, patri otto Texas TTexar-
kama Times.
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| The Dallas News is authority for the
statement that the antI-prohibition COM
mittee has decided to sustain such county
papers as will oppose prohibition vigor-
ously and to establish papers in all
counties where there are none to
maintain the "anti'' doctrine. As
the big breweries and dis
tilleries will put up millions of money to
defeat the amendment it is easy to guess
how the committee will "sustain" their
favorite papers. Their bait will be in the
way of offers of money. 1t is bold game
and it will be interesting to watch the re-
suit. Any newspaper that will accept
pay ior its opinions is beneath the respect
of men. We suppose the committee will
have to start a new paper in Hunt county,
for we are unwilling to believe that there
is one IN the county that can be bought
II Greenville Banner.
One of the phases OF voting on the pro-
hibitOry amendment needs to be remem-
bered. Voters in the county precincts
and small villages, where there are no
liquor sellers, or where local option
law could possibly be enforced, may vote
for local option because they believe it good
for their neighborhoOds. But they ought
not to forget that they are not voting for
their neighborhood when they vote on this
amendment. They are voting to
force prohibition upon cities and
towns where the people do not
want it, and it should not be en-
forced merely to crafty sentiment. Tie
real question is not whether local option
will work out in the country where there
is no whisky, but whether prohibition
will work in cities where there is whisky
It is not whether local option can be en-
forced in the country where there is q
public sentiment in favor of it, but
whether prohibition can be enforced in
cities where there is public sentiment
opposed to it. This is the real question
to be voted upon by our country friends
and should not be forgotten [Corsicana
Courier.
Are the prohibitionists prepared to put
their hands in their pockets and replace
the thousands upon thousands of dollars
of revenue which will be gone provided
prohibition passes? If not, they should
not advocate the passage of the measure.
- TeXarkana Times.
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If the proposed prohibition amendment
does no other good it has been useful in
bringing to light one of the great re-
sources of the state that no citizen Of
the state ever dreamed of before. We
refer to the domestic wine industry. Until
the adjournment of the Legislature no
body ever dreamed of Texas being SO
great in the production of wine, but now
that commodity seems to be great sta
pie. We guess there was at least bar
relful made last year. Weatherford
News.
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Prohibition does not attempt to pro-
hibit the manufacture, sale and exchange
OF liquors for any awful purpose, and
those lawful purposes are ample for all
necessary use. Then what is there in the
amendment which any good man can OBJ
ject to- Temple Herald.
We publish in this issue the platform
adopted by the state nti-prohibition con-
vention, and the Ball endorses it from
the beginning to the end of the chapter
thereof. Every fair-minded man should
read the document and study it. AS the
Hon. John Hancock said in his speech
before the convention "prohibition means
revolution" therefore IL is the duty of
the citizen to discard sentimenJalism and
come down to hard, solid thinking
Marlin Ball.
The pti-prohibitioRists merely weaken
their cause when they resort to the use Of
defamatory and abusive terms or false
arguments. There are enough substantial
arguments against prohibition without
Juggling in woman suffrage, tobacco and
tea, the ''poor man," and all such stuff
as might disgust common sense, and, if
not drive away votes, render voters so
Indifferent that they will stay away from
the polls. There are objections to the
amendment that occur to any conscien-
tious man. AS long as men have ap-
Detites liquor will be drunk, and men
Will sell it to the drinkers. Prohibition
has never yet stopped it's sale,
though it may decrease it. For
the evils that are suppressed by
this partial prohibition, we have
on the other hand the evils that arise out
of the secret dens of vice and carousal
where drink is sold, the evils that spring
from the Generalization growing out Of
obnoxious laws in that it inculcates con-
tempt of law and all civil obligations.
ALWAYS large number of community